{"id":167107,"date":"2025-09-19T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167107\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:51:09","slug":"the-u-s-labor-market-is-slowing-minnesotas-is-bucking-the-trend-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167107\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. labor market is slowing. Minnesota\u2019s is bucking the trend for now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota\u2019s labor market defied expectations in August, adding thousands of jobs and outpacing the country as a whole just a month after state officials warned of an economic slowdown.<\/p>\n

Employers added 5,900 jobs in August, the state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) reported Thursday. A routine revision to the July numbers<\/a> showed the state lost just 500 jobs that month, less than the 4,400 first reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cAugust showed strong growth for Minnesota\u2019s workforce, despite a nearly flat trend nationally,\u201d DEED Commissioner Matt Varilek said Thursday. \u201cWe continue to monitor for changes in this picture due to the uncertainty coming out of Washington, but we\u2019re pleased with Minnesota\u2019s economic resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n

A month ago, state officials sounded the alarm that tariffs, federal funding cuts<\/a>, mass government layoffs and an immigration crackdown were beginning to strain Minnesota\u2019s economy as well as the country\u2019s at large.<\/p>\n

The monthly state jobs report, like the national report, relies on business survey responses and is regularly revised as more come in to DEED.<\/p>\n

\u201cNaturally, some months will get revisions that report better numbers; some months\u2019 revisions report worse numbers,\u201d said Angelina Nguy\u1ec5n, DEED\u2019s labor market information director. \u201cSo I would say, with monthly data that\u2019s released, take it with a grain of salt in the sense of, don\u2019t let one month define the whole picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minnesota added more than 39,000 jobs year-over-year in August, a 1.3% bump that outpaced a nationwide uptick of 0.8%, according to DEED. The state\u2019s diverse headquarters economy typically helps protect it from shocks that hurt other parts of the country, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota\u2019s labor market defied expectations in August, adding thousands of jobs and outpacing the country as a whole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-167107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}